On Thursday, August 15, 2019, 01:56:47 PM PDT, Thomas David Rivers <[email protected]> wrote: > Thus - the entire question about "what time is it" is totally answered > when you can reliably answer the question of "where are you?"
C offer's localtime and UTC but not z/OS time. The OP wants the z/OS time. "where are you" is too simplistic. Time is relative to the problem being solved. C and z/OS take the simplistic approach that there is a single time zone involved. C assumes this time zone is customizable where as z/OS has a single timezone for the system. The C assumption works well for Unix where user's run their programs in a process. This paradigm starts having problems in products such as SAP, Peoplesoft and others. I suspect IBM decided on a single timezone because z/OS encounters these types of issues. Jon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
